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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the families registered to participate in this short, informal learning experience based in the blogging world!

This blog is designed as a course for parents and grandparents at my PK-12 school. Nearly 40 families have signed up to spend about 10-12 weeks reading and learning about the digital learning tools that their children use in school and out. We may pick up a few more participants along the way.

Our mantra is “Parents are 21st Century learners, too!”

The idea for this course was born during a conversation with my friend, colleague, blogger, and master teacher, Susan Lucille Davis. (Read her Getting Smart blog posts.) As we spoke about the number of times parents comment to us about feeling unfamiliar with the digital tools that their children use, we began to think about how to give them more information. Both of us realized that sometimes we educators introduce a new tool or site and encourage our students to use it at home as a part of their schoolwork, but their parents want to learn more about it too.

So — ta-da! — here is the information, written and directed toward parents of digital kids!

Class-on-a Blog Mission

This blog is designed for GDS parents, alums, and friends who want to learn more about kids' social media and digital device adventures.

Focused on parent technology education, our "class-on-a-blog" replaces the morning and evening classes that we held in previous school years. No need to come to school for yet another event. Instead the content comes to you as a link in an e-mail message.

Please encourage other GDS community members to sign up for these blog post lessons -- parents, grandparents, guardians -- even aunts, uncles, and cousins.

Followers from outside the community are also most welcome to subscribe.